Garment.



C. F. FILOR.

GARMENT.

. APrLlcATloN r|LEb sEP-T.29. 1914.

A Patented Sept. 19,1916.v

Char/e CHARLES F. FILGR, OF TRENTON, NEW JERSEY.

GARMENT.

Specieaton of Letters Patent.

Patented sept. 19, 191e.

Application filed September 29, 1914. Serial No. 864,024.

To all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES F. FiLoR, a

citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in garments and has especial reference to the neckbands of mens shirts, ladies waists and the like.

The object of the present invention is to so construct the neckband of a garment as to obviate the disagreeable contact of the collar button with the neck of the wearer.

Another object is to accomplish the above without weakening the collar band, and astill further object is to do this in such a manner as not to require the use of any material `other than usually employed in the manufacture of an ordinary garment.

IVith these and other ob]ects in View, my invention consists. of the following novel combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter more fully referred to, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the accompanying drawingsz-I4`ignre 1 is an inner face view of a portion of the neckband of a shirt and contiguons'parts, Fig. 2 is a similar view of that portion of the neckband usually carrying the collar button, and Fig. 3 is a sectional perspective view of the subject matter of the preceding figure.

4In carrying out the invention the usual neckband vl is employed attached to the shirt in the ordinary manner, which, in the present instance, isshown as ain ordinary neglige shirt. The side 2 of the bosom is made with the usual button holes having the ordinary reinforcing strip 3. 'Ihe other side 4 of the bosom has stitched thereto one end of the neckband l with the collar button hole 5 formed therein through all of the thicknesses of said band so as not to weaken the collar button hole. The usual button reinforcing strip 6 through which the attaching threads for securing the bosom buttons 7 pass is Jemployed. This last mentioned strip is secured to the garment by stitches 14 which terminate at 15 and is stitched upon the outside of said band along the row of stitches 8 at the same time the collar band is secured to the shirt. The strip 6 is also stitched along the line 9 across the collar band forming a pocket l() open at its top and one side. In order that a more secure pocket may be obtained, a couple of stitches may be taken at v the point 11, although this is not essential.

It is thus apparent that a pocket open at I the top is formed for receiving the back of the collar button usually contacting with the neck of the wearer.

Various means have been employed for accomplishing the above object, but 'heretofore the pocket has been formed from one or more layers of material of which the neckband is formed and thereby weakening the said neckband or by sewing on an additional strip of material.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is The combination with a garment having a neck portion and a vertical opening eX- tending therethrough, of a neck. band consisting of a plurality of stri'ps.- continuous vfrom end to end of such neck band and mounted on the neck portion of the garment and provided with overlapping ends having collar button holes formed therein arranged to register when the ends are overlapped, `a vertical button reinforcing strip secured .to the inner side of the garment at one edge of the vertical yopening by a row of stitchmg and extending to the upper edge of the garment neck band to provide a portion overlapping with a portionof the neck band 4form a protective flap between the neck band and the body of the wearer, said flap being free on two adjacent edges of the neck band.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES F. FILOR.

Witnesses:

S. R. HoLLrEs, t Emvi r: THOMAS FITZGEORGE. 

